St Stephen's Day

 December 26. The day after Christmas, and the feast day of the first martyr. Can Christians box the compass, or what?

Desperate hopes everyone had a lovely Christmas Day. We certainly did here in Desperateland. It may have been Lord-knows-how-many degrees below zero outside, but it was nice and warm inside. I tell you, there's nothing a hot toddy and a couple of blood orange mimosas can't do.

On Christmas Eve we observed family tradition by a) going to a vigil Mass, and b) ordering takeout Chinese. We tried to change things up a bit, but it's just not Christmas Eve without fried rice and lo mein.

We didn't get to see the Star of Bethlehem- too much cloud cover. Also  none of us was sure which way south west was. Uptown, downtown, crosstown, no problem. East and West? Who do I look like, Lewis and Clark?

Of course the array of gifts under the tree was littered with I.O.U.'s, thanks to the USPS and Amazon being a lot slower this year. I guess with the shutdowns a lot of people did a lot of online shopping and things got backed up a bit. But that was okay, too.Something to look forward to in 2021. Besides it just not being 2020 any more.

Desperate has decided to go for all twelve days of Christmas this year. After 2020 we deserve it this year.